The Sober World Quotes

#1. And anyway, who's to say that what we see when we're drunk is not reality, and the sober world a bleared phantasmagoria

John Banville

#2. To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

Eugene O'Neill

#3. Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience ... Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

Dorothy Allison

#4. Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

Kathleen Hanna

#5. We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.

Asa Don Brown

#6. Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

Asa Don Brown

#7. ...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

Asa Don Brown

#8. He looked at her as if she were already one of the ugly nameless bodies in the mortuary, and with a medical man's sober, somewhat cynical mind, he saw her in front of him, stripped and sliced open. That was his revenge. He caught himself regarding the whole world in that way.

Erik Fosnes Hansen

#9. Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.

Asa Don Brown

#10. Apparently these new rulers of the world did not indulge in any drinking or smoking to soften their moods when they met, which Menelaus knew to be a big mistake. The Congress of the United States, back before the Disunion, always met sober, and look at what had come of that.

John C. Wright

#11. The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

Asa Don Brown

#12. Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

Asa Don Brown

#13. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

#14. As a clinician, I unapologetically believe that we must no longer identify our patients/clients with the addiction. While they may struggle with an addiction, the addiction itself is no different than any other form of medical ailment and disease.

Asa Don Brown

#15. It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

Asa Don Brown

#16. Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter.

Lara Biyuts

#17. May you begin living beyond.

Asa Don Brown

#18. The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

Clarence Day

#19. ...Domestic violence occurs at all socioeconomic levels.

Asa Don Brown

#20. Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person.

Asa Don Brown

#21. No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...

Asa Don Brown

#22. Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

Asa Don Brown

#23. Be an informed advocate and support.

Asa Don Brown

#24. All right, so we're also all fucked up. But hey, you think sober people aren't all fucked up? The world is being run by sober people - and it doesn't look like it's working out all that well. Just

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#25. Domestic abusers and the abused need to develop healthy support systems...

Asa Don Brown

#26. I was drunk at five in the afternoon.

Luckily, we were in Las Vegas. I contemplated the fact that being drunk in Las Vegas was like being sober everywhere else in the world. So... normal.

Penny Reid

#27. Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.

Asa Don Brown

#28. Be aware of children who may be living in a domestically violent home.

Asa Don Brown

#29. Children should be taught the inner and outer beauty related to one's sexuality and personal relationship to sex.

Asa Don Brown

#30. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

James Hollis